The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-04-07

ern part of Kansas.
A calf with eight legs and two heads
is in possession of farmer at Liver
more, Cal.
Adolphe Houssaye writes from Paris
that Albani, at sixty-two, is singing
grandly as ever.
There are sixteen thousand colored
teachers in this country. The schools
in the South are attended by one mill
ion colored pupils.
Thomas A. Armstrong, editor of the
Pittsburg Labor Tribune, is quite gen.
orally spoken of as the Presidential
candidate of the Labor party in 1888.
A New York court recently decided
that where the foreman of a cloak fac
tory, backed by two lady assistants. de-
clares a cloak to be fit, the customer
has nothing to say in the matter.
Two very ancient skeletons. supposed
to antedate the present aborigines,
have been unearthed two miles north
of Tucson, Arizona. They were in a
sitting position and eucased in wall
of powders.
John G. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
grandson of the great nullitier, has the
second largest cotton field in the United
States. He was . captain in the Con-
federate service at eighteen. He is
now tortv-one.
Tsai-tien, the sixteen-year old Chi
nese emperor, has assumed the respon-
sibilities of government. His wife is a
great beauty. He selected her from a
lot of over one hundred girls sent to
him for inspection.
The life of large steel gun is claim
ed to be 200 rounds, with full batter
ing charges, and, as the guns cost from
S75, 900 to 1915, 900, according to size,
the cost of the gun alone is thus, per
charge, from 1915 to $3.50.
Officer John Seraphim, of the Phila-
delphia police force, speaks fluently
seven different languages. Everybody
/ knew that Philadelphia was heavenly
sort of place, but it was not generally
known that she had seraphim on her
police force.
A German investigator found among
condemned criminals % per cent who
were left-handed, while a comparative
| research among other persons showed
that the proportion of the left-handed
| is not above 9 per cent. This is rather
sinister estimate of the morals of left
handed people.
The catering at a recent Legislative
reception in Augusta, Me, is said to
have been in keeping with other
arrangements for the affair. A Bangor
lady who attended gave a friend the
following graphic description of the
bill of fare: Very dry sandwiches,
very bad cake, wet water, very poor
ice-cream, and coffee Of the same
quality"
A French physician, who holds that
grooming and crying are operations by
which nature allays anguish, tells of a
man who reduced his pulse from 1875
| to go in the course of few hours by
| giving full vent to his emotion. II
people are unhappy about anything he
advises them to go into their rooms
and comfort themselves with a loud
! boO-hoo.
The production of gold during 1886
exceeded that of any previous year
since 1880, and almost equaled the pro-
duction of that year. This amounted
to S35, 100000 in 1886, against $751;
! 800, 900 in 1885, an increase of over
$3,000,C00. The production Of silver,
as nearly as can be ascertained, was
/ $40, 1875, $50. The amount of gold
bullion imported into the United States
was s17,947 ,518 and the exports $27,-
862 ,637.
| The Indian reservations of the
United States contain 100000 square
miles, and their population is about
two hundred and sixty thousand.
Twenty-six thousand square miles
would locate each family upon hall
section of land, leaving surplus Of
about 10000 square miles, which
would produce annually $4,480,000
This amount exceeds by about $3.50, O0C
the entire sum appropriated for the
| payment of their subsistence and civil.
Zation.
The feeling of protest against being
| made a show of is born with us. Who
has not seen little child pout and be
silent when requested to exhibit his
infantile accomplishments? Many
men would do the same if the court.
estes of life did not restrain them
They have, like the little fellows, an
inner perception that much of the
honor they are getting is undeserved,
! and that more of it is insincere. As
to the praise-seekers and pretenders
| no such consideration embarrasses
them.-Philadelphia Ledger.
when we first returned from our
wedding tour and set up housekeep-
ing" said a Bufalonian who some
months ago became a benedict, ''my
wife would place her hand on my
shoulder when she saw me making
preparations to 60 downtown, and in
an appealing tone say: Don't be in
hurry, dear; business is not pressing,
and | want to talk with you half an
hour longer Now she chances at
the clock the moment | draw back
from the breakfast table, and anxiously
inquiries: Aren't you afraid you will
be late at the Officer"
The usefulness of asphalt paper APP
pears to be demonstrated by its con-
stantly multiplying applications. In
thin sheets it is found admirably
adapted for wrapping silks or other
fabrics that need protection from moist
ure, also for lining cases, packing
boxes for pianos, etc, and. rolled up
into pipes, for conveying water. As
| phalt tubes are but one-ffth the weight
of iron, will not rust, and are quite
tough and strong; they are simply
sheets of paper, of peculiar quality,
dipped in melted asphalt, and then
rolled upon a cylinder.
On Race Point, Cape Cod, there used
to be big bell with clock work that